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...high school, Staph was a standout player who could play flanker, tailback or fullback. In his final high school game, the 100th playing of the University-Western Reserve rivalry, Staph scored three touchdowns to lead his team to the win in a driving snow...
...through the vignettes of village life that pepper Christos’ saga, distinguishing it somewhat from the blandness of being a total cliche. Filmed on location, the camera brilliantly captures the town’s breathtaking white splendor, from the chalky stones that line the streets, to its snow-colored houses. The villagers manage to furnish this white canvas with vibrant color. Tsarouchas portrays the early 19th century world with engaging detail. The hay shed near the school grounds is overwhelmed by children at recess, who toss hay at each other every which way. Men and women show off beautiful...
...living join with the dead, snow falls in the background and a feeling of serenity, a serenity, one might think, as comforting as that which accompanies the dead, passes over the audience. As the always-apropos Gabriel himself poses, “Where are the words that might express one’s heart?” The pseudo-answer to this rhetorical question lies in the play’s unconscious description of the audience: “They listened, they watched, and they smiled...
...neighbors were not close friends, Cable says, but she delivered Jenkins baked goods on the holidays, they cleaned snow off each other’s sidewalks each winter in an attempt to avoid the inevitable flooding, and they talked at the occasional neighborhood potluck or outside Jenkins’ neat gray house...
...streets filled with masked men and women, cloth and clothing torn to tie across their noses and mouths against the dense debris rain. Some streets were eerily quiet. All trading had stopped on Wall Street, so those canyons were empty, the ash several inches thick and gray, the way snow looks in New York almost before it hits the ground. Sounds were both muffled and magnified, echoing off buildings, softened by the smoke. You could hear the chirping of the locator devices the fire fighters wear, hear the whistle of the respirators, see only the lights flashing red and yellow...